State accountability for space debris : a legal study of responsibility for polluting the space environment and liability for damage caused by space debris / by Stubbe, Peter (Jurist), PALCI EBSCO books

Table of Contents: “…III International Space Law -- 1 General Remarks on International Space Law -- 2 State Responsibility in International Space Law -- IV State Responsibility Compared: General International Law and Space Law -- 1 Overview -- 2 Concurrent Development and Dynamic Interpretation -- 3 The Fact of State Responsibility -- 4 Specific Attribution Rule in International Space Law -- 5 Interim Conclusion -- C State Liability -- I Origin of State Liability -- II The ILC and State Liability -- 1 Codification of the Rules of State Liability -- 2 Content Overview of the ILC Instruments -- 3 Status of the ILC Instruments -- III Other International Liability Law -- 1 Civil Liability Regimes -- 2 The 'Polluter Pays' Principle -- IV International Space Law -- 1 Space Activities as Hazardous Activities -- 2 Liability in International Space Law -- D Preliminary Conclusion -- I The Applicable Law -- II Responsibility and Liability Distinguished: Critical Discussion -- 1 Functional Differentiation -- 2 Regime Follows Function -- 3 Obligations of Space Debris Mitigation -- A Introduction -- B Conventional Law -- I Article IX of the Outer Space Treaty: Overview -- II Systematic Context of Article IX Sentence 2 of the Outer Space Treaty: A Limitation of the Principle of Free Use -- 1 The Principle of Free Use in the Outer Space Treaty -- 2 Limitations to the Principle of Free Use -- 3 Dogmatic Foundation of the Principle of Free Use and Its Limitations -- III The Scope and Content of Article IX Sentence 2 of the Outer Space Treaty -- 1 Applicability to All Space Activities -- 2 The Concept of 'Harmful Contamination' -- 3 The Nature of the Obligation -- 4 Substantive Obligations: Adoption of Appropriate Measures -- IV Application to Space Debris -- 1 Space Debris as a Harmful Contamination of Outer Space -- 2 Obligations -- V Interim Conclusion -- C Customary Law.…”
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